Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.10197

Name

Mycobacterium fluoranthenivorans Hormisch et al. 2006

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Mycobacterium Lehmann and Neumann 1896 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Meehan et al. 2021

Type Strain

representative organism

FA4^T (=DSM 44556 =JCM 14741 =CIP 108203)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Actinobacteria (sic) Goodfellow 2021 non Actinobacteria Stackebrandt et al. 1997
class Actinomycetes Krasil'nikov 1949 (Approved Lists 1980)
order Corynebacteriales Goodfellow and Jones 2015 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
family Mycobacteriaceae Chester 1897 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2018
genus Mycobacterium Lehmann and Neumann 1896 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Meehan et al. 2021
species Mycobacterium fluoranthenivorans Hormisch et al. 2006

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the species Mycobacterium fluoranthenivorans Hormisch et al. 2006. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.10197.

Source File

10.1601/tx.10197.xml

References

Hormisch D, Hormisch D, Brost I, Kohring GW, Giffhorn F, Kroppenstedt RM, Stackebrandt E, Färber P, Holzapfel WH. Mycobacterium fluoranthenivorans sp. nov., a fluoranthene and aflatoxin B1 degrading bacterium from contaminated soil of a former coal gas plant. Syst Appl Microbiol 2004; 27:653-660. https://doi.org/10.1078/0723202042369866 [PubMed].